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Installing font-dejavu breaks other fonts

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Installing font-dejavu breaks other fonts
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 10:44:14 -0400

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Since my last full upgrade on June 9 2020, I found that if I have
font-dejavu installed in my profile, my terminal (rxvt-unicode) no
longer finds the font selected in my ~/.Xresources file.

I'm using Guix on Debian, and all the packages involved are installed by
Guix. They are rxvt-unicode, font-anonymous-pro, and font-dejavu.

I strace-d the terminal startup.

In the good case, it reads and loads a bunch font-related things before
it finally loads my specified font from its symlink in
'~/.guix-profile/share/fonts'.

In the bad case, this work is cut short before it loads the DejaVu font
directly from the store.

I've attached excerpts of these traces as 'good.log' and 'bad.log'.

Here is a manifest to test the effect:

------
(specifications->manifest
 '(glibc-utf8-locales"
   "rxvt-unicode"
   "font-anonymous-pro"
   "font-gnu-unifont:pcf"
   "font-gnu-unifont:psf"
   "font-gnu-unifont:bin"
   "font-gnu-unifont"
   "font-dejavu" ; comment this package to toggle the bug on and off
))
------

And the ~/.Xresources file:

------
Urxvt*scrollBar: false
URxvt*font:	xft:Anonymous Pro:pixelsize=13:antialiasing=true \
		xft:unifont:style=Medium:antialias=false:size=16
Xft.hinting:	1
Xft.hintstyle:	hintfull
!
! this is a comment
!urxvt*foreground:White
!urxvt*background:Black

urxvt*foreground:Black
urxvt*background:White
------

[good.log (text/plain, attachment)]

[bad.log (text/plain, attachment)]

Message #8 received at 42006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 42006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42006: Installing font-dejavu breaks other fonts
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 23:11:49 -0400

Hi Leo,

Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> writes:

> Since my last full upgrade on June 9 2020, I found that if I have
> font-dejavu installed in my profile, my terminal (rxvt-unicode) no
> longer finds the font selected in my ~/.Xresources file.
>
> I'm using Guix on Debian, and all the packages involved are installed by
> Guix. They are rxvt-unicode, font-anonymous-pro, and font-dejavu.
>
> I strace-d the terminal startup.
>
> In the good case, it reads and loads a bunch font-related things before
> it finally loads my specified font from its symlink in
> '~/.guix-profile/share/fonts'.

Odd.  Is this problem still actual?

Thanks,

Maxim

Message #11 received at 42006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 42006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42006: Installing font-dejavu breaks other fonts
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 09:54:44 -0400

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 11:11:49PM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> Hi Leo,
> 
> Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> writes:
> 
> > Since my last full upgrade on June 9 2020, I found that if I have
> > font-dejavu installed in my profile, my terminal (rxvt-unicode) no
> > longer finds the font selected in my ~/.Xresources file.
> >
> > I'm using Guix on Debian, and all the packages involved are installed by
> > Guix. They are rxvt-unicode, font-anonymous-pro, and font-dejavu.
> >
> > I strace-d the terminal startup.
> >
> > In the good case, it reads and loads a bunch font-related things before
> > it finally loads my specified font from its symlink in
> > '~/.guix-profile/share/fonts'.
> 
> Odd.  Is this problem still actual?

I will see about reproducing it when I have the time.

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